Barney Frank Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
Ian Frazier -
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Rachel Kushner -
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
Ian McShane -
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln -
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Patrick Dempsey
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham -
There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
Malvinder Mohan Singh -
I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
Victor LaValle -
Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
Naomi Watts -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal -
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
Aaron Swartz -
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Padgett Powell -
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
Madhuri Dixit
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I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
John Dawson Winter III -
As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.
Kristen Stewart -
Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
Magic Johnson -
If a girl sings a sexy song, I actually become even more attracted to them.
Charlie Puth -
I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.
Angelina Jolie -
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Barney Frank